February 18, 2009 - Last June a pair of gamers, Geoffrey Pecover of Washington, D.C. and Jeffrey Lawrence of California, filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that Electronic Arts' exclusive licensing agreements with the NFL, NFLPA, Arena Football League and NCAA has created a monopoly on football videogames and directly led to the game publisher raising the price of its extremely popular Madden NFL franchise.

February 3, 2006 - Here's a great sequence that sums up Arena Football. It's the fourth quarter, and with four seconds remaining in the game, the Arizona Rattlers scored a touchdown and a two-point conversion to go up by six points over my San Jose Sabercats. All is lost, right? In Arena Football, you will quickly learn, no game is ever out of reach.

December 16, 2005 - EA invited IGN to the nifty Clift Hotel in San Francisco this week to show off its latest baby, Arena Football. Besides hungry videogame journalists and a butt-load of free sushi, also in attendance were San Jose Sabercats head coach Darren Arbet, Colorado Crush quarterback and coverboy John Dutton, as well as AFL commish Dave Baker.

December 16, 2005 - Colorado Crush quarterback John Dutton will be Electronic Arts' cover athlete for Arena Football, says EA.
"In a 51-48 win over the Georgia Force in ArenaBowl XIX this past June, Dutton led the Colorado Crush to its first-ever Arena Football League championship in just their third year in the league, throwing for 347 yards and three touchdowns. Dutton, a seven year Arena Football League veteran, previously led the San Jose SaberCats to an ArenaBowl title in 2002 where he was named MVP of ArenaBowl XVI. As the quarterback at the University of Nevada, Dutton helped Nevada earn its first bowl win with an 18-15 defeat over Ball State in the 1996 Las Vegas Bowl."

July 27, 2005 - Electronic Arts announced Wednesday that the Hypnotix development team (Outlaw Golf, Outlaw Volleyball) has joined EA's Tiburon studio (Madden NFL) to work on action-focused titles. First up for the team is Arena Football, based on EA's Arena Football League (AFL) license.